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  • Retaining heritage skills for the future

    Retaining heritage skills for the future

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    In our latest visit to the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), The Railway Magazine meets its youngest apprentice.

  • A railway in BARBADOS AGAIN

    A railway in BARBADOS AGAIN

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    The tiny independent nation of Barbados has an operating railway once more after a gap of more than 80 years. Keith Fender and Glen Beadon look at the Caribbean island’s troubled railway history and the development of the latest venture.  BARBADOS’ first female Prime Minister, the Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, opened a rebuilt railway on the…

  • Spring Gala report: Severn Valley becomes Welsh Valleys

    Spring Gala report: Severn Valley becomes Welsh Valleys

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    Dubbed a ‘Great Western tank fest’, 10 locomotives steamed for the Welsh-themed Severn Valley Railway March 15-17 spring steam gala.

  • 1960s Railtours with a difference

    1960s Railtours with a difference

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    Keith Farr takes a nostalgic look at some notable steam rail tours from the 1960s

  • Fleet Focus: Britain’s new trains

    Fleet Focus: Britain’s new trains

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    Exciting times are ahead as the first trains of two new fleets entered service during April and May.

  • Made of Stone: Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire

    Made of Stone: Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire

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    Ben Jones visits one of the country’s most important locations – Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry in Derbyshire.

  • The South Tynedale Railway

    The South Tynedale Railway

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    It may well be England’s highest narrow gauge railway, and has deep-seated aspirations to return to Haltwhistle.

  • Urie Locomotive Society & the return of the S15s

    Urie Locomotive Society & the return of the S15s

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    Gareth Evans talks to volunteers of the Mid-Hants Railway-based Urie Locomotive Society and learns about the group’s two S15s.

  • Updated ‘O’ Gauge ‘Rat’ from Heljan

    Updated ‘O’ Gauge ‘Rat’ from Heljan

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    An impressive Class 25/3 joins the Heljan Class 25/1.

  • Remembering the ‘Clay Tigers’

    Remembering the ‘Clay Tigers’

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    With the release of the Kernow model, David Ratcliffe profiles a career that spanned two decades.

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